skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it is accurate to think that the board must be involved for there to be merit. The board represents a totally different set of interests and priorities, many of which may even directly contradict and even clash with those of shareholders, even if they are shareholders themselves.

The nepotistic, incestuous, little club of boards and CEOs is almost hostile to shareholder interests once forward momentum stalls, at which point divergent priorities emerge.

If the board wants to remain in the board carousel club, they can’t be joining lawsuits against CEOs, when they often themselves are CEOs that frequent the same few exclusive clubs and triple gated communities and celebrate holidays at the same exclusive hotels. There is clearly a stratification there that you are either dismissing or are not aware of. Let me put it this way, the nobility will always hold to each other over any challenges from the merchant class, even if when everyone is making money, there is some mutually beneficial mingling.
Drone reg here in Ireland (over 250g or with a camera its required) €38 for two years.

https://www.iaa.ie/general-aviation/drones/drone-register
There is also a night train, which I find even more convenient for long distances.

Sure it’s slower, but you’ll spend most of the time sleeping and it saves you one night at a hotel.

https://www.nightjet.com/de/reiseziele/frankreich
> I think the author just finds C++ fun for some complex combination of personal factors, which is fine. Perhaps partly due to a "hacker" type personality.

I think that sums up the point of the article just fine.

To me at least, it's not so much that it's confused as that it's him being excited about having fun and doing his best to share his joy. Which means that, sure, it's not a proper essay at all, it's not really trying to convince you to agree so much as saying "if you find this relatable without me trying to actively convince you, maybe you'd find it fun too."

I think given you've been mugged by reality in commercial work to the point of tiredness, your not finding it to make sense at all is completely understandable, though.

I'm currently having a blast writing javascript of all things, and I imagine if I wrote up a similar blog post explaining why it'd come across just as badly to somebody burned out on the last decade of commercial javascript too.

But I'm glad he's having fun, and I'm glad he decided to share the joy.
many more use closed source kvm solutions built-in into servers, so...

as an homelabber, i'm using HP's iLO on my gen8 microserver for example.
Why are AI researchers constantly handicapping everything they do under the guise of ""safety""? It's a bag of data and some math algorithms that generate text....
The price really depends how much in advance you are booking, DB price are outrages on the same day but unbelivable cheap three weeks before, i really dont get the business logic behind that, the spread is like 19.99 to 240
If you're making lots, you could uncouple the programming interface which isn't needed while in flight, thereby saving both BOM and weight.
Microplastics really are the new shit magnet of science papers.

You get nice news headlines with no tangible issues to health are found and it's easy to just prove a bunch of microplastics in all the things.

If I wanted an easy PhD I'd likely do the same due to how shitty academic hustle is in today's world...
Antler was a waste of time.
I forgot to mention that the price ranges I cited refer to DB (German railway company); I’ve edited my initial post to clarify.

I don’t know the pricing at SNCF (French railway company).
Right, but it's 3x the price and out of stock :(
There are a few layers to this problem. They're not entirely wrong about developments in AI-assisted coding – it is progressing quickly. But for now, LLMs doing "any software engineer job" is still far off. At least in the way people like your brother mean it: that some non-technical person can just tell an AI "build <this or that> for me," and the AI handles it end-to-end.

Until we reach that stage (if ever), technical people will still be needed in the loop – to check that the AI's work is correct, integrates properly with the rest of the system, and meets the requirements. And this leads to the main role of any engineer: figuring out the requirements. In other words, determining what exactly needs to be built.

People, in general, aren’t great at describing things in a precise, unambiguous way – and non-technical people even less so. I don't see this part of the equation being automated anytime soon.

As long as you enjoy figuring things out, solving technical problems, architecting software systems, and understanding software at a deep level, I think there will be work for you for the foreseeable future – no matter how "AI-assisted" it becomes.
They usually do Translation live, so I'd be very surprised if they didn't offer them in the stream as well. They always offer English and I think some talks have been live-transcribed, too, for people with hearing disabilities, but that might be automated by now.

Personally I think it's good you are not forced to present in English. I know enough people who are not comfortable enough with English to present in it. There are also some niche topics that have a focus on Germany. For these sometimes German brings a bit of nuance/local flair that you can't really translate. For these I'm happy that German is available as the original and then the translators will do their best to provide an English second best.

To some degree I find it inevitable that conferences situated in countries that are not native English speaking will have some program points in the local language. As long as they offer help with understanding the content, I don't see an issue with this, regardless of how big/influential they are.
You can get like minded people and go roleplay feudalism with guns somewhere else, please leave people with empathy out of it.

PS: don't forget to document your inevitable failure, just like every libertarian "non-fools" community previously.
self as in you don't have to interact with the creator of npflared, not self as in run in your basement
I checked https://lobste.rs/moderations for deleted AI stories going back to October. There's nothing I can find there. Downvoting through flagging - any examples?
It absolutely has. The functional programming paradigm is designed specifically to describe a program withoilut side effects, so you can be sure that execution is deterministic (and thus scalable and parallelizable). There are no other advantages to functional programming.
My 10+ years professional life in software has seen me both thinking I am Julius and thinking I am working with Julii.

What I try to tell myself is that I am working in a state where I am at best ~75% sure of what I am doing. I assume others are in a similar situation with a varying percentage value.

Mistakes happen more often than I would like (not quite of the IP-less internet caliber, but still) and both when I make mistakes, and other make mistakes, I try to remind myself of this.

I value highly anyone that takes the time to tell me I made a mistake and why, I try to offer the same courtesy when I get the chance.

I only am worried when people _repeatedly_ make no attempt to learn from mistakes and just shrug them off, or worse leave the hot potato to someone else and still get the credit. But I can also see how sometimes we make mistakes and don't even realize.

...more on the topic, I guess, I have stopped using AI tools while coding almost completely
It's because we then go check it out, and see how useless it is when applied to the domain.

> programmers are still in the denial phase

I am doing a startup and would jump on any way to make the development or process more efficient. But the only thing LLMs are really good for are investor pitches.
It depends, but not on TEN-T [1] routes, which this one is.

[1] https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...
Also requires, which initially looks batshit insane but is in fact really quite cool: https://www.think-cell.com/en/career/devblog/if-constexpr-re...
By this logic nobody wins, because humanity will go extinct eventually.

In reality the winners of natural selection are those who were born and are still alive. If life is a game, they are winners in the most literal sense.

We struggle for existence against entropy, not against other humans or animals.
How does your treatment AI get its liability insurance?
Well, you have a choice there.
Ask others, and get dolphins; or follow your heart.
Is not quite zero, even if there is no technical cause, because the suit itself may just be a pressure vehicle and the CEO may feel pressure among his social strata to give some back as a type of penance as condition to remain in good graces and not slam the door shut on any future opportunities. It’s a club, and they want to remain in it.
I guess he might be referring to local problems and how capitalism interacts with culture. For example, Israel has a serious conflict with Palestine: how will they use AI?
I have yet to see someone advocating for actual socialism. There is a huge difference between social democracy and socialism, but it's a popular argumentation technique in the US to pretend that they are the same.
Wouldn't you agree that the problem in such a situation is not the Julius/Julii, but the managers who hired and misunderstood his/their contributions?
Prosus to Acquire Latin America's Despegar for US$1.7B
Well, 99% of pure math will never leave the domain of pure math so I'm really not sure what you are talking about.
>He left because his plan didn't work.

He didn't leave, he was fired in the same way that a Drill Sergeant goes "I'm gonna need 10 volunteers..." and then orders 10 unlucky SOBs to gear up.
They will, when it becomes good enough to prove tricky things.
I am talking about in 20-30 years.
Astronomers always use cm and refer to elements heavier than hydrogen as "metals".
Does anyone know what this actually does? There's no explanation in the documentation, and the only screenshot is of the build process.

I get the impression whatever it is requires metadata from a digital camera, which isn't present in my photos because I like to shoot film and scan it. My first thought was, "Wow, how is it going to analyse the subject matter and classify all my scans in 'seceonds'?" My second thought was, "Ah, it won't." The author is clear that this tool is based solely on their own workflows, which is fair enough, but I'd at least like to know what those workflows are.
Only in the same sense that “could care less” is understandable but also means the opposite of the intention.
Forget about best practices and refactoring.

You'll need to duplicate existing code and make it your own or risk adding one piece of new functionality and breaking things that were using that code in 20 unexpected places.

Build new isolated code with best practices.

You'll slowly become familiar with it and get a feel for the best way to make updates and changes safely.
Pre-Fastmail, I did not have mail storage space at Pobox; just forwarding ability. I did not use Pobox's own interface for releasing spam mail; I used the standard filter (can't remember the exact name) and almost never saw nonspam in there (not that I checked often).

Post-Fastmail, I still forward from Pobox/Fastmail to the same other Google Workspace account from which I pull mail to my local system with `fetchmail`. I have Fastmail send all mail, spam or not; while the settings UI does not allow setting the spam protection level to "Off" when forwarding is used, the same thing can be achieved by using "Custom" then disabling "Move messages with a score of ___ or higher to Spam". I thus can let Google's spam filter deal with the inflow and, if necessary, manually sort miscategorized mail with my IMAP client.
I have only ever heard it used as a high brow burn, and a wickedly hard one at that.
Not sure he wants it. PocketBase is just a backend he developed for his main project, Presentator, and everything I’ve read from his conversations are “Yep, I’m publishing this because someone else might get some use out of it but I’m not developing by consensus here”, and I don’t think he wants it to be his full time job (he’s always super polite and helpful, not trying to imply he’s rude or dismissive or anything).

Obviously everyone has a price, so maybe I’m wrong, but even then you’ve not solved the “bus factor” problem.
Also, if you don't want to go to the bar in the train, you can totally picnic without having to pay airport level of extortion for drink and food. You can bring your own food on a plane but not drinks and if you are having lunch in the plane but it is just not that comfortable, better doing that in the terminal.
There's a parallel here with modern applications perl as compared to the crawling horrors people perpetrated in CGI scripts during the dot com boom.

Also present day javascript (the language; the ecosystem is another matter ;) compared to the 'var' and IIFEs-for-scoping era.
The interesting/scary part is that its not that hard to weaponise these drones. You can make one drop a home made explosive pretty easily, fully autonomous. and then dump itself into a body of water. All for way less cost than a gun.
Why spend your life doing something a computer could do for you?

Why spend your life doing _anything_ a computer could do for you? Why even live, if you're going in that philosophical direction?

I don't think copilot et al is anywhere close yet though.

Unfortunately, many of those in management already think it is.

The less people use their brains, the more easily they will be replaced, and the worse the product they'll produce. Unless you want to lose your job and let society drown in mediocre software (which you will no doubt need to use), do not hand over your agency to the machine.
sounds identical to the well known “dragon hair” noodle technique from china.
The Dark Side of CS2 Gambling [video]
I use emacs, and although I have LSP configured I switch projects and branches often enough that I don’t rely on it working. Finding definitions is normally pretty easy because code bases have structure, but occasionally can be tricky if the method is inherited, or overridden by subclasses, but that sort of thing sticks in your head after working with a codebase for a little while.

I think co-pilot is the more interesting example you give, because my answer is that I will not use it unless I could do the job without it. For example: yesterday I was refactoring a bytecode interpreter as the core loop had grown so large it was causing a performance issue. Solving this required getting the size of the method containing the inner loop back below a threshold. This isn’t something an IDE’s “Extract method” refactoring can do automatically because there is mutable state that needs to be passed in and out, and if I didn’t already know how I wanted to do it, would not be something I could easily check the correctness of co-pilot doing. So you sit down and think. What stages will you have to go through to extract and change this code? You come up with something that will let you validate the idea and then refine it, and you have tests, lots of tests, and some degree of intuition so that when you see a failure you can guess the thing you might have missed.
Is it though? It reads to me more like elitism to me.

A better summary is: “people have different workflows because different people like to approach problems differently.”

That’s all it is.

I find LSPs largely get in my way. I don’t have them disabled because 1% of the time I do find them useful. But for the other 99% of the time they’re adding no value at all. So I could very easily write code without an LSP (and often do write code in vi with zero additional plugins installed).

What I do really value is code formatters. I like not having to write tidy code and then having code formatters clean it up when I hit save. That’s the kind of enhancement I value. (It also gives me piece of mind that a file has saved successfully when you see alignment pop into place).
So, suprassing 80k karma, one gets title edit rights?
Would you consider the Linux kernel a small project?

That's an example of one where a large number of people working on it do not use IDEs.
Let's see where Intel is in 5 years now the MBAs, finance and legal are running the show again.

Pat may not have turned the ship around, but it looked like he was starting to stop the rot at least.
It is not about speed, is about quality.

When I met the other 2 blind people, one of them joked that yes, they were very organized, but because they had to be, unlike us, being not organized wasn't an option for them.

I don't question the ability you may have to deliver quicker results, but I bet that your incentive to organize stuff is smaller than what your friend has.

Maybe he will be more inclined to refactor that than you and take even more time, and that maybe it pays off. Of course, I have no idea of your deadlines or if you are in a rush for MVP in search of market fit.

But this also follows those lines of: "wanna go fast go alone, wanna go further go together".

I value more quality than speed, but also understand that sometimes speed is what is needed.
Buy you'll have spent half of that flight time in traffic going in and out of airports, as well as in the actual terminal.

Taking a flight means losing a minimum of half a day, regardless of the actual flight time.
Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free
I want to live in this world, where we're all part of a larger collective endeavor to discover the truth, to be more informed, learn continuously, and evolve together. That's the old-school philosophy and mission of science for the betterment of humanity.
Communication is not good if everybody speaks the same language at a different level. I have worked in English for close to 30 years and been at many international conferences, presented myself a couple of times. Still I feel handicapped in some presentations/discussions that are dominated by native speakers not using offshore English.
Here in Norway unfortunately flying is still the fastest mode of transportation between major cities. It takes 7-8 hours between Bergen and Oslo for example. For frequent business travelers it’s not a feasible option. I wish the government was prioritizing improving trains and rail infrastructure but instead they are investing heavily on highways and electric flights.
The night trains are great. It's quite comfortable, you get there in the morning allowing for a full day (after dropping off your bags at the hotel) of work/tourism, and I especially hope Nightjet and other night train companies converts all of their trains to the modern mini cabins[0].

They're incredible.

[0]: https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/nightjet-new-genera...
There are socialist parties in every European countries, and some of them get a lot of votes.

In Germany, Die Linke is anti-capitalist and advocates "actual socialism" and current has 39 MPs in the Bundestag.

In France, LFI (France Unbowed) is anti-capitalist and advocates "actual socialism" and currently has 71 MPs in the French parliament (second largest party by number of MPs...). There are also several smaller parties that are more "hardcore", including the historic French Communist Party that still has 8 MPs and 14 Senators...

Now I do agree that social democracy is not socialism, but again, plenty of socialists in Europe, too.

On a related note, when people claim that they are "anti-capitalist" (which seems to be more popular than claiming to be socialist) it does not really leave many alternatives, just semantic flavours of socialism.
Scientists unveil 50k-year-old baby mammoth remains
Well C has functions. Isn't that the original hiding abstraction?
I am not sure patients and doctors are interested in adding hallucination generators to the list of their problems.
Unfortunately not enough. I hate living in a European colony exploited by unethical US oligopolists.
A healthy mixture was always preferred in maths and science. This is occasionally taken to extremes; the name reverse transcriptase, an enzyme used by retroviruses, is a combo of English, Latin and Greek!

Arabic is also popular, particularly in maths.
I lived in Downtown Baltimore, from 1980-83.

It was always a fairly gritty, blue-collar town, but crack moved in around ‘83, and that’s when it became The Wire. Before, I could walk through some of the toughest neighborhoods in town, and it would be OK (I was fairly scruffy, back then, but no Billy Badass). Nowadays, even the nice areas are a bit scary.

Crack was focused on, a lot, and there was definitely a racial aspect to law enforcement and hysteria, but the drug is still quite nasty. It’s more like the focus on cocaine was muted, as opposed to the focus on crack being overwrought.

That said, gambling can have extremely similar outcomes. You don’t want to stray too far from The Strip, in Vegas or Atlantic City.

Desperate people can get fairly rapacious; regardless of the source of their desperation.
For normal folks? For sure. And the law doesn’t allow it for normal folks.

This type of thing is only possible when special rules are made for people with enough power they can hide massive fraud/malfeasance in some cases.

This lawsuit seems unlikely to
go anywhere though. And frankly, will just increase asking price for CEO salaries.
I feel that's a big issue with learning a language in an IDE.

I've written a ton of C# and I don't remember shit about methods in the standard library, because it's all there, and getting worse with AI. Not to mention the detrimental effect that the constant interruptions must have.

I use IntelliJ for Java, but since I learned the language and standard library long before fancy IDEs were a thing I barely notice the blinkenlights.
> I am hamandcheese.

Ah yes :D

> Either way, not a language feature.

The language feature I am talking about is that it is completely declarative. You can argue semantics if you want but Nix chose to use a completely declarative language for configuration and that was IMO a bad decision.
Auto is an improvement for C++ only because of its uniquely unergonomic type system and standard library. I'd very much prefer writing something like `iterator<auto>` instead of `auto` or `std::map<lotsofchars>::iterator` and not be told by every linter to change most explicit type declarations to `auto`.
Rust would probably be a good fit for HFT, but as the field is so dominated by C++ is hard for another language to make inroads. Java managed to some extent.

I would expect a lot of unsafe though.
They have lots of options (fast/slow/sleeper/premium/etc..): https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/display.aspx?t... and also pricing is more predictable. In general, it's only a bit cheaper than flying but China rail stations are usually in the center of their cities, so you save 30minx2 vs the airport.
Infernal will be happy. I heard their heart is hungry for love.
> gangrened by unions which fight tooth and nails to preserve advantages which reasons to exist disappeared decades ago. Unions review the full trains planning with management before it’s validated and veto any optimisations which would cut overtime or might impact compensations without any regards for customers. It’s revolting

I've heard that before, but usually from the crowd that wants to privatise the whole country anyway. I understand that you're claiming to have witnessed it, but do you have some sources?

Surely, the amount of money they pour onto Cap Gemini and many other consulting firms to rebuild existing systems instead of having teams in-house who could maintain them must have an impact on ticket costs...
Thank you, I didn't realize this existed.

I have accessibility needs (screen reader user) that make subtitles less fun to use than they would otherwise be, and I speak no German, so those interpreted recordings would be really great for me.

I assume you don't publish on Youtube? That's how I usually consume CCC content, mostly due to YT's recommendation algorithms and excellent cross-device "continue playback" support.